Citizens Quote by Julien Offray de La Mettrie

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.

— Bill Mollison

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

— Emile M. Cioran

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

— Karl Jaspers

I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day job to…

— Kevin Warwick

I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.

— Bill Mollison

My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.

— Timothy Leary

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

— Angela Davis

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.

— Frederick Busch